The following is a list of languages used in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest since the contest's inception in 2003, which includes the year, country, song and artist through which each language made its debut. There is a rule in place that stipulates that any given song must be sung in one of the national languages of the country it represents. However, it is permissible for a song to contain lyrics in other languages on top of this.
The songs that contained the most languages were the Serbian entry in 2006 and the Albanian entry in 2015, both with eight. The Serbian song, "Učimo strane jezike", actually only contains two lines (found in its chorus) in Serbian, while the rest is sung in the English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese languages. Albania's "Dambaje" is sung in Albanian, German, French, Spanish, English, Italian, Slovene, and Turkish, the last of which made its debut in Junior Eurovision.
Germany's debut entry in 2020, "Stronger With You" was the first Junior Eurovision entry mostly in German, making Germany one of the current participants in Junior Eurovision whose language appeared in the contest before they did.
Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Kazakh, and Welsh have been featured in songs of the Junior contest, but they have never been used in songs of the senior Eurovision Song Contest (although a Japanese mantra was sung during the Azerbaijani entry of the cancelled Eurovision Song Contest in 2020).
Languages Order Language Firstappearance Country First performer First song 1 Greek Nicolas Ganopoulos "Fili gia panta" (Φίλοι για πάντα) 2 Croatian Dino Jelusić "Ti si moja prva ljubav" 3 Belarusian Volha Satsiuk "Tantsuy" (Танцуй) 4 Latvian Dzintars Čīča "Tu esi vasarā" 5 Macedonian Marija and Viktorija "Ti ne me poznavaš" (Ти не ме познаваш) 6 Polish Kasia Żurawik "Coś mnie nosi" 7 Norwegian 2U "Sinnsykt gal forelsket" 8 Spanish Sergio "Desde el cielo" 9 Romanian Bubu "Tobele sunt viaţa mea" 10 Dutch X!NK "De vriendschapsband" 11 English Tom Morley "My Song for the World" 12 Danish Anne Gadegaard "Arabiens drøm" 13 Swedish The Honeypies "Stoppa mig" 14 Italian Demis Mirarchi "Birichino" 15 French Thomas Pontier "Si on voulait bien" 16 Russian Vladislav Krutskikh "Doroga k solnstu" (Дорога к солнцу) 17 Montenegrin Filip Vučić "Ljubav pa fudbal" (Љубав па фудбал) 18 Portuguese Pedro Madeira "Deixa-me sentir" 19 Ukrainian Nazar Slyusarchuk "Khlopchyk Rock 'n' Roll" (Хлопчик рок н рол) 20 Serbian Neustrašivi učitelji stranih jezika "Učimo strane jezike" (Учимо стране језике) 21 German 22 Georgian Mari Romelashvili "Odelia Ranuni" 23 Armenian Arevik "Erazanq" (Երազանք) 24 Bulgarian Bon Bon "Bonbolandiya" (Бонболандия) 25 Lithuanian Lina Joy "Kai miestas snaudžia" 26 Maltese Nicole Azzopardi "Knock Knock!....Boom! Boom!" 27 Azerbaijani Omar Sultanov & Suada Alekberova "Girls and Boys (Dünya Sənindir)" 28 Hebrew Kids.il "Let the Music Win" 29 Albanian Igzidora Gjeta "Kam një këngë vetëm për ju" 30 Slovene Ula Ložar "Nisi sam (Your Light)" 31 Irish Aimee Banks "Réalta na mara" 32 Latin 33 Turkish Mishela Rapo "Dambaje" 34 Kazakh Daneliya Tuleshova "Ózińe sen" (Өзіңе сен) 35 Welsh Manw "Perta" 36 Japanese Ayana "Mata Sugu Aō Ne" 37 Brazilian Portuguese Nicolas Alves "Anos 70" 38 Estonian Arhanna "Hoiame kokku"
Winners by language
WinsLanguageYearsCountries4Russian2005, 2006, 2007, 2017These songs were partially sung in English.Belarus, Russia3French2020, 2022, 2023, 2025FranceGeorgian2011, 2016, 2024Georgia 2Armenian2010, 2021ArmeniaPolish2018, 2019PolandEnglish2013, 2015Malta 1Croatian2003CroatiaSpanish2004SpainDutch2009NetherlandsUkrainian2012UkraineItalian2014Italy
See also List of languages in the Eurovision Song Contest
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